jeremiad

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English[edit]

WOTD – 29 January 2008

Etymology[edit]

From French jérémiade, from Jérémie, from Latin Ieremias, from Hebrew ירמיה (yirm'yá, “Jeremiah”). Named after biblical prophet Jeremiah, who lamented the moral state of Judah and predicted her downfall.

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jeremiad (plural jeremiads)

  1. A long speech or prose work that bitterly laments the state of society and its morals, and often contains a prophecy of its coming downfall.
    Synonyms: lament, lamentation, tirade; see also Thesaurus:diatribe
    • 1895, Mary Gaunt, The Moving Finger: A Digger's Christmas:
      "Father Maguire," he said in the broadest of Cork brogues, without the ghost of a smile on his grave Irish face, "is it a song yez wantin'? Well, thin, it's just a jeremiad I 'd be singin' yez, an' not another song at all, at all."
    • 2006 May 5, The Columbus Dispatch:
      “This is precisely the manner of Balkanization that Schlesinger cautioned us about in his prescient jeremiad on multiculturalism, The Disuniting of America.”
    • 2007 May 19, Charlotte Higgins, “US government trying to seize new Michael Moore film, says producer”, in The Guardian‎[1]:
      Cannes is smacking its lips in anticipation of filmmaker and provocateur Michael Moore's latest jeremiad against the US administration, which receives its premiere at the film festival today.
    • 2011 July 18, John Cassidy, “Mastering the Machine”, in The New Yorker‎[2], →ISSN:
      His warnings ignored in Washington, Dalio issued more jeremiads to his clients. “If the economy goes down, it will not be a typical recession,” his newsletter said in January, 2008.
    • 2015 March 30, Michael Billington, “Look Back in Anger: how John Osborne liberated theatrical language”, in The Guardian‎[3]:
      What few of us realised at the time was that Osborne, while endorsing most of Jimmy’s jeremiads, also had a sneaking sympathy for his father-in-law, Colonel Redfern, an upper-class relic of the Raj.

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Swedish[edit]

Swedish Wikipedia has an article on:
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Noun[edit]

jeremiad c

  1. a jeremiad

Declension[edit]

Declension of jeremiad 
Singular Plural
Indefinite Definite Indefinite Definite
Nominative jeremiad jeremiaden jeremiader jeremiaderna
Genitive jeremiads jeremiadens jeremiaders jeremiadernas

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